Abstract
Las doce sonatas para teclado, Op. 1, de Ludovico Giustini (1685-1743), constituyen la música más antigua explícitamente indicada para su interpretación en el pianoforte. Son composiciones atractivas en el estilo clásico temprano, que exhiben una interesante mezcla de influencias de la música italiana de tecla, la sonata italiana para violín y la música francesa para clave. Su inusual formato de danzas, sus excursiones contrapuntísticas, y novedades en cuatro o cinco movimientos, parecen haberse inspirado en las sonatas para violín Op. 1 del toscano Francesco Veracini. Aunque la única fuente de las sonatas es un impreso datado en Florencia, en 1732, está claro que el impreso sólo pudo haber aparecido entre 1734 y 1740. Fue posiblemente difundido a Lisboa, y no a Florencia, como resultado del mecenazgo del Infante Antonio de Portugal y Dom João de Seixas, relevante cortesano en Lisboa durante los últimos años de la década de 1730.
Highlights
No less than five facsimile editions of the Giustini sonatas have appeared to date: Twelve Piano-Forte Sonatas oft
Since the style of the Giustini sonatas is very much wedded to the capabilities of the Cristofori piano, an instrument little cultivated even by specialists who perform regularly on historical keyboard instruments, their modern neglect is understandable, but they do have much to recommend them as keyboard compositions
Contrapuntal organ sonatas in single movements were clearly a stylistic resource used by composers of sonatas for stringed keyboard instruments in the 1720s and 1730s, including Lodovico Giustini and Domenico Scarlatti
Summary
Contrapuntal organ sonatas in single movements were clearly a stylistic resource used by composers of sonatas for stringed keyboard instruments in the 1720s and 1730s, including Lodovico Giustini (who made his living as an organist) and Domenico Scarlatti The first two decades of the eighteenth century saw few new keyboard sonatas produced in Italy, partially a reflection of weakened traditions of Italian keyboard music in general at the time.
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